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The CIS countries should protect themselves from external influences, President Vladimir Putin has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to rely more on national currencies in trade in order to make themselves less vulnerable to outside influences.

The Ukrainian president was speaking after his military bombarded civilian areas in Donetsk Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to “liberate” the Russian territory of Crimea and the independent republics of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR). He was speaking just hours after reports of the Ukrainian military shelling residential buildings, a marketplace and a maternity…